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Mike pushes into his hands, but Will keeps him still.
"Ask again," he says. Because he's greedy, and he wants Mike to want him.
He stares at Will's mouth. "Please."
"Again."
El is gone.
Will tries to figure out how to move on in New York, and Mike follows him. Their apartment is haunted not by ghosts, but by the two of them.
Or: Catastrophically traumatized boys cling to each other and accidentally figure out how to be close—too close—while moving through their grief.
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- Part 1 of Supervoid (& Will’s Letter to El)
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06 Jul 2026
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“So,” Dustin announced as he brought back drinks for the whole table and very pointedly tipped his head in the direction of Mike and Will, who were mid-heated discussion where they’d left them. “Is anybody going to tell me what happened there?”
Max rolled her eyes and said, “Will had a real ‘don’t meet your heroes’ moment,” at the same time as Lucas said, “Mike got his feelings hurt.”
Miscommunication kings Will and Mike have a falling out in the aftermath of their first kiss. Three years later, Jane & Dustin are getting married in the Florida Keys, and they want the whole party there. Sometimes it's easier to pretend to kiss and make up than to face your problems.
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06 Jul 2026
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“You do like it,” Mike teases. “I can tell.”
“Obviously,” Will huffs. “You know what I like.”
Mike does. What a surreal feeling it is, to be the one who knows what Will likes. What makes him blush, or shy away. What turns him on. To be the only one who knows these things.
“Yeah,” Mike says softly. “I know.”
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Will becomes the patron saint of pretending to sleep with guys to help them come out of the closet. Mike isn’t exactly thrilled with the situation.
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01 Jul 2026
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You've Already Won Me Over (In Spite of Me) by RosieTheReaderxx
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jul 2026
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One arm propped up against the door frame as he leaned forward, messy black curls haloed in the warm light from the hallway, Mike drug his glassy eyes over Will’s body, taking in his rumpled hair, his favorite too-big The Cure t-shirt (the one with holes around the collar), and baggy grey sweatpants, before giving him a cocky grin.
Will was always enraptured by Mike’s beauty. He was like the perfect fusion of a Renaissance painting and a marble statue: simultaneously sharp angles and soft edges. Dark ringlets spiraling to caress the stark line of his jaw. Thin hooked nose nestled between gentle umber eyes. Prominent high cheekbones contrasting with plush downturned lips. Pale porcelain skin smattered with freckled constellations. He was an artist’s wet dream.
“Hey.”
Will scoffed and crossed his arms. “Hey, yourself.”
They stood in silence for a moment, Mike leering as Will attempted to fix him with a fierce glare.
“Aren’t you going to invite me in?”
“You’re drunk, Mike.”
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Follow along through three “periods” of Will’s art style post-college graduation and the encounters with a certain “best friend” that inspired them.
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30 Jun 2026
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How many bad things can subsequently happen to someone before they completely lose their sense of self and make their misery everyone's problem? Will Byers was about to find out, after a bone chilling call from Holly Wheeler telling him that her brother had turned into an absolute wreckage.
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Mike Wheeler’s need to be needed finally caught up with him, and as he experiences what can only be described as ego death, he has to learn how to need someone.Bookmarked by allspicesalt
30 Jun 2026
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Gothic Mike Wheeler is a notorious player in college in 1991. He’s not hard to get, just very hard to keep. Art student Will Byers, new boy and miles from home, separated from all he knows and loves, does not listen to copious amounts of advice to stay away from Mike.
A powerful flirtation begins, one that envelops both of them instantly - like a spell.
It becomes something neither of them could have predicted.
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How college heartbreaker, Mike Wheeler, falls in love with inexperienced Will Byers, and subsequently himself in the process.
“Mike, I can’t do this, you have to talk to me. This hurts too much.” Will almost shook him, “What’s wrong? Why are you so upset?”
Mike didn’t respond. Will pulled Mike’s face close to his.
“Why don’t you want what’s right in front of you?”
Mike closed his eyes and tears spilled down his cheeks and over Will’s hands.
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30 Jun 2026
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Perderme (I might lose myself in you) by InclusiveMonkey23
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 May 2026
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When 28 year old Mike Wheeler finds out Will Byers will become one of his clients, and proposes an opportunity of a life time, he soon realizes, he won't be able to resist himself.
And maybe neither one of them wants him too
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30 Jun 2026
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Mike and Will are not completely new to intimacy. They show each other affection constantly. Be it holding hands, bumping knees, kissing, compliments, pet names, leaving hickeys.
But that's where it stops.
They've talked about sex, discussed their feelings on it, agreed that they want to do it together, whenever they're both ready for it. And for a while, that was it.
It never came up again, and they both felt content with it. Maybe it'll come naturally, work out, like things usually do with the two of them.
Only lately something has shifted. Neither of them is sure when and how it happened, but things have started to heat up.
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Mike and Will exploring more intimate parts of their relationship in their little New York apartment.
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- Part 2 of Mike and Will nervous boyfriends
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- English
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- 25/?
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27 Jun 2026
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Will Byers has trouble sleeping in the Wheeler's basement alone. So, Mike Wheeler finds a way to help him sleep better.
In a dramatic turn of events, Mike also ends up helping Will with something else...
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25 Jun 2026
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It's September 1986 and the gang have been at it for nearly six months now, desperately trying to find Vecna in the Upside Down.
On the night of Crawl #12, something finally happens: and it's not what any of them expect it to be.
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Two unlikely visitors stumble into the world of our Hawkin's heroes, shaking up their lives for a temporary period of time.
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- English
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- 12/15
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20 Jun 2026
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A car accident leaves Lucas and Max in critical condition.
Suddenly, Mike Wheeler is sharing his apartment with a toddler, an old teddy bear, and the best friend he hasn’t spoken to in years.
It was only supposed to last a couple of days.
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19 Jun 2026
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Mike has spent the last six months learning three things:
His daughter doesn't talk.
Grief doesn't get smaller.
And he is catastrophically bad at asking for help.
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Mike takes his grieving daughter to therapy and accidentally walks back into the biggest unfinished chapter of his life, Will Byers.
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18 Jun 2026
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When Will took a job at infamous nightclub CBD he wasn't expecting to like it.
He also wasn't expecting to meet someone who could rearrange his soul with a simple look.
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Towards the end of his third year at college, Will takes a part time job at a busy alternative nightclub and meets Mike Wheeler. Tattooed, pierced, confident, breathtakingly gorgeous - and taken. However Mike is also throwing more mixed signals Will's way than a railway crossing on the fritz, flirting and teasing Will in a way that makes him think there might be more to Mike than he first suspected.
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15 Jun 2026
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The summer before college is supposed to be easy.
Mike teaches Will how to drive. They get jobs at Family Video. Evenings still belong to the park, the swings, the same routines they’ve had for years. For a while, it almost feels like nothing has changed.
Then their boss gives them ten boxes of unlabeled tapes and tells them to watch them. All of them. Tuesdays, paid, just the two of them in a dark room writing down runtimes and summaries like it doesn’t matter.
Most of the tapes are nothing.
Some of them aren’t.
And suddenly, being alone together starts to feel different. Something neither of them quite knows how to name, or admit, or look at too closely.
Told in alternating POV, this is a story about growing up, denial, and what happens when something you’ve spent years ignoring refuses to stay buried.
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- English
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- 141,578
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- 10/17
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15 Jun 2026
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“I wouldn’t be who I am without you… and… whatever happens next— I just need you to know that no matter what—” he said with a choked voice. “You’ll always be important to me.”
Whatever happens next... no matter what...
Will felt his soul slowly leaving his body.
Time seemed suspended, as if they were trapped in a parallel reality.
Then Will started to cry. A terrible cry, sobbing and heaving. The tears streamed down like a waterfall and he didn’t even try to stop them, he just lay there, in the arms of the man he loved and who, apparently, was preparing him for the inevitable end.
will thinks mike is preparing to leave him. mike is preparing to ask him to marry him. these turn out to be very different things, as you can imagine
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14 Jun 2026
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Fire in My Heart: Heatwave of '92 by Thetheoryholdstrue
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Jun 2026
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14 Jun 2026
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“Will it get better?” Will asked her, voice scratchy, emotions leaking out. The nightmares. The monsters. The deaths. Mike.
“I don’t know,” she whispered back, her own voice breaking.
“It has to,” he said, more to himself than her. “This – this can’t just be it.”The Byers have moved to California; Hopper is gone, Billy flayed, Bob dead, and Will is now 2,274 miles away from everything and everyone he has ever known. And he’s Fine. Nightmares stalk his sleep, his chest aches with the life he left behind, the childhood that had never really felt like his. The boy back home with the freckles and the words left out in the rain. Will is Fine. And he’ll keep telling himself that until the dreams drag him under.
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Will gets to Cali and accidentally hot girl summers; cue meeting new cute boys and sneaking out to parties and spray painting the back ends of Lenora to feel some semblance of control.- Language:
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14 Jun 2026
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Will’s friends dare him to ask out a quiet boy at their college, and the date goes very well. His friends don’t believe him until they accidentally overhear the pair.
What Will never expected was that accepting that dare would be the best thing he ever did
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12 Jun 2026
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An ache started to settle inside Will's chest, burrowing deep between his heart and ribs.
Mike let go of the hug, stepping back a few inches and kissing the sobriety chip, "For you. For Nora."
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Mike and Will navigate married life, struggling through Mike’s sobriety and being on the brink of divorce.
- Language:
- English
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- 56,890
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- 6/?
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11 Jun 2026
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"What exactly are you calling for, Nancy?"
There was a moment of silence before she continued. "I'm living in Paris—for work. I can't… they won't let him leave the country, and I can't move back fast enough for it to matter."
Will felt his face pale. "What about your parents?"
"They don't want anything to do with him, not after—"
"Yeah, I heard. What about…"
"Will, there's no one else. I've tried."
"Nancy, I can't… I can't just—"
"Please. I wouldn't be asking if there was another option."
Will bit the inside of his cheek. "Okay."
Or: Mike is on house arrest for 6 months and has no choice but to stay with Will, even though they haven't spoken in two years.
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10 Jun 2026